Re: [lojban] Re: Alice - the xorlo version

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 05:29:42PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
>>
>>  Some things are
>> interesting from the beginning, and some are not.
>
> And sitting on a riverbank doing nothing is in the latter category.

But the text says that she is _beginning_ to get tired. i.e. the
boredom of just sitting there is starting to take its toll on her.

> Therefore, tatpi doesn't apply to me.
>
> I'm sorry, but tatpi just doesn't seem applicable there at all.

Fine, you say "tatpi" has a narrow meaning: physical energy
exhaustion. In general, when there is a possibility of narrow vs wide
meaning, Lojban tends to go with the wide meaning, because it's
usually easear to narrow down than to widen. It's not as if the mental
sense of tiredness is completely unrelated to the physical sense.

So what would you suggest for "she was beginning to get tired of
sitting there doing nothing"?

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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